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1.India's largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is set to lay off about 2 per cent, or 12,261 employees, of its global workforce this year, with the majority of those impacted belonging to middle and senior grades.
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2.A district-level Lok Adalat was successfully organised Sunday, in accordance with the directives of the Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA) at District Court, Bhubaneswar, and focused exclusively on resolving cheque bounce cases.
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3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday praised tribal women from Mayurbhanj district for the revival of Santali sarees and hailed Pramila Pradhan of Keonjhar for creating awareness among people to protect the environment and prevent forest fire.
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4.The Subarnarekha surged again Sunday morning, marking the fi fth wave of fl ooding in Balasore district and cutting off multiple low-lying villages as water levels rose sharply above the danger mark.
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5.The CBI has arrested three persons for allegedly siphoning off Rs 3.81 crore through online fraud in a single day using mule accounts, officials said Sunday. The agency has arrested mule account holder Sudhir Bhaskar Palande and agents Yash Thakur and Shaurya Sunilkumar Singh, who have been sent to judicial custody, they said.
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6.A National Cancer Institute (NCI) Workshop in December 2020 emphasised the importance of addressing the combined usage of tobacco and alcohol . Co-use of tobacco and alcohol has been found to be associated with a multiplicative effect in cancer risk, particularly for pharyngeal and oral sites
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7.Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Sunday met cousin and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray to wish him on his 65th birthday, the meeting coming amid shifting political dynamics in the state.
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8.As many as 63 districts across 13 states and Union Territory, including 34 in Uttar Pradesh, have reported that more than 50 per cent of children enrolled in anganwadis are stunted, according to an analysis of multiple documents submitted in Parliament.
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9.The United States has struck a framework trade deal with Europe, US President Donald Trump announced Sunday, averting a spiralling row between two allies who account for almost a third of global trade.
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10.The United States is pausing all routine visa services at US embassy in Nigerien capital Niamey until further notice, according to a State Department spokesperson and an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters Saturday.
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11.The British government is planning a new intelligence unit pulled from across police forces to monitor and fl ag anti-migrant posts on social media to pre-empt them flaring into violent protests, a UK media report claimed Sunday.
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12.The Department of Telecom has issued a "show-cause-cum-demand notice" of about `7,800 crore to Tata Communications over adjusted gross revenue dues, according to an offi cial note by the company.
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13.Savings deposit rates of some public sector banks (PSBs) are prevailing at a historical low, since their de-regulation in 2011, according to the latest bulletin of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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14.The government has reiterated that there is no plan to levy goods and services tax (GST) on unifi ed payments interface (UPI)-based transactions exceeding Rs 2,000.
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15.The combined market valuation of 6 of the top-10 most valued firms diminished by Rs2.22 lakh crore last week, with Reliance Industries taking the biggest hit, in-line with a bearish trend in equities.